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Hardware grants in the United Kingdom

Explore Hardware grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for electronics, devices, sensors, prototyping and hardware startups from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Hardware in the United Kingdom come first.

Showing 145-168 of 335 grants

Innovate UK logo
Open

Knowledge Transfer Partnership

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Part-funded innovation projects between businesses and academic partners.

Invest Northern Ireland logo
Open

Project Definition

🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom

Funds Northern Ireland businesses planning R&D projects through Invest NI project-definition support.

£100K
Invest Northern Ireland logo
Open

Technical Development Incentive

🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom

Funds Northern Ireland SMEs using technical service providers through Invest NI innovation support.

£15K
Innovate UK logo
Open

Innovate UK EDGE Growth Loans

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds United Kingdom small companies with EDGE growth loans for scalable innovation.

£100K – £1M
Scottish Funding Council logo
Open

SFC Student Placement Innovation Vouchers

🇬🇧SFC · United Kingdom

Funds Scottish SMEs extending academic collaborations through SFC-backed student placement vouchers.

£1K – £8K
Plexal logo
Between cycles

Barclays Eagle Labs x Plexal Scaleup Programme

🇬🇧Plexal · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom technology scale-up through a hybrid programme for growth firms with either raised capital or active revenue.

Strathclyde Inspire — University of Strathclyde logo
Between cycles

Exploring Entrepreneurship Challenge

🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom

Supports Strathclyde community teams building entrepreneurial skills through a practical team challenge program.

£2K
Scottish EDGE logo
Between cycles

Regional EDGE

🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom

Supports Regional EDGE programmes for early-stage Scottish businesses across four regions via local delivery partners.

£10K – £50K
British Business Bank logo
Between cycles

Start Up Loans

🇬🇧BBB · United Kingdom

Funds UK founders starting or growing a young business with a government-backed personal loan and 12 months of mentoring.

£500 – £25K
TB
Between cycles

TBAT 2026 Innovation Challenge

🇬🇧TBAT · United Kingdom

Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.

£50K
Imperial Enterprise (Imperial College London) logo
Between cycles

WE Innovate

🇬🇧Imperial Enterprise · United Kingdom

Supports women founders with a focused programme of mentorship and investor readiness for startup growth.

£30K
Scottish EDGE logo
Between cycles

Scottish Scale EDGE

🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom

Supports scaling Scottish technology businesses with hybrid grant-loan funding and growth recognition.

£100K – £200K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) autumn

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Turn a public sector research asset into something a market will pay for.

£50K – £250K
Imperial Enterprise (Imperial College London) logo
Closed

Commonwealth Startup Fellowship

🇬🇧Imperial Enterprise · United Kingdom

Supports early-stage founders from Commonwealth countries with mentoring, masterclasses, and investor-facing acceleration.

£2K
QD
Closed

Quantum Dice Use Case Challenge

🇬🇧Quantum Dice · United Kingdom

Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.

£1K – £5K
SA
Closed

Santander X UK Awards

🇬🇧Santander · Spain

Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.

£5K – £30K
WI
Closed

Water Discovery Challenge 2

🇬🇧Water Innovation Fund · United Kingdom

Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.

Climate Tech
£650K
OF
Closed

Water Discovery Challenge 2

🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom

Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.

£550K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Innovate UK Innovation Loans (Future Economy)

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.

£100K – £5M
Invest Northern Ireland logo
Closed

Innovation Vouchers

Invest NI · United Kingdom

Funds Northern Ireland businesses accessing knowledge-provider expertise through GBP 5K innovation vouchers.

£10K
AR
Open

Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab

Arduino · Global / Multinational

Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.

RoboticsIoT & Edge+2
$3K – $5KSep'26
DI
Open

Novel Technologies for Rapid Proof of Clean in Professional Environments

Diversey · United States

Pays $10,000 for a genuinely new way to verify cleanliness in under 30 minutes.

HardwareBiotech
$10KSep'26
NVIDIA Corporation logo
Open

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program

NVIDIA · United States

Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.

AIQuantum+2
Sep'26
National Institutes of Health logo
Open

Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research

NIH · United States

Funds the development and hard technical validation that turns a working cancer research technology into one other laboratories will actually adopt.

BiotechMedtech+1
$300KNov'26

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